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    “We frolic in our emancipation from theology, but have we developed a natural ethic—a moral code independent of religion—strong enough to keep our instincts of acquisition, pugnacity, and sex from debasing our civilization into a mire of greed, crime, and promiscuity? Have we really outgrown intolerance, or merely transferred it from religious to national, ideological, or racial hostilities?”
    ― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

    "Grow strong, my comrade ....that you may stand
    Unshaken when I fall; that I may know
    The shattered fragments of my songs will come
    At last to find melody in you;
    That I may tell my heart that you begin
    Where passing I leave off, and fathom more."
    Will Durant.

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    Inspired by a traditional Romanian saying,impossible to translate through google

    So I adapted it in the same sense of understanding.But I want to say that, I would very much like all people to look up to sky offering something beautiful they can't have, instead of asking for something they can have.

    "If you give and don't have, but you think you can get, you end up not giving something you could actually have."
    And all this to be just human.

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    For all the responsibility of the future that belongs to us,

    "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today"

    Abraham Lincoln



    And some of the thousands of sayings I grew up with,

    When everything is too late
    Bring water after the fire has gone out.

    When someone is looking for the good in something that is wrong
    Collect the pimples for its back.

    When you can no longer resist a situation
    Get the knife to the bone.(metaphorically and ironically)

    When there is an ace up your sleeve for a person you want to calm down
    To have someone's coat needle.

    For people who are very lucky without making any effort that requires focus on a plan
    To have more luck than mind.

    When someone insists on a subject without making a good objective resolution.
    Beat the water in the well

    When someone is unjustifiably avenging the person or animal who is the most peaceful and fair
    Beat the horse that pulls.

    When someone can't keep a secret and tells everyone he meets
    Beat the drum all over the village.

    When someone goes beyond any measure of common sense and your understanding comes to an end
    To step on the light bulb.

    When you are on the side of someone who is dear to you and more importantly, you know with simple facts that he is right
    Singing for someone in the hall

    When you do something in vain but continue for a good purpose
    Carrying water with sieve.

    When you encounter something similar to the previous situation with small different details.
    The same Marie with another hat.

    When you study a difficult situation and break it down into chapters methodically
    Split the thread into four.

    Arguing someone very hard with too real arguments
    Make someone with egg and vinegar.

    When you try to reconcile two people who have the same opinion but quarrel
    Reconcile the goat with cabbage.

    When you hunt a truth and without wanting it, you find the truth in its demonstration
    Shoot two rabbits out of a fire.

    When you live in a society where you no longer find meaning in what it represents,and those who rule the world always advise you to go wrong.
    Put the cart before the cattle.

    When you realize that there is no God and you are already trying to help yourself in your aspirations.
    Help yourself and the Lord will help you.

    Water conducts and purifies everything and in all its effort the stones are self-standing as a demonstration of memory and steadfastness
    The water passes, the stones remain.

    For a person who is poor but prides himself on his needs
    He has a cart with oxen and a hundred needs.

    When you have the highest allowance listen with interest and study whatever you hear but you can't believe it until you have clear evidence for yourself.
    Listen to everything, but don't believe everything.

    When an heir makes wrong choices similar to his father's.
    The bark does not jump far from the trunk.

    A hard-working man he takes care to get what he needs long before he needs it.
    The good housekeeper makes a sledge in the summer and a carriage in winter

    When such a small truth can overturn the whole plot against this Planet.
    The small log can overturn the big cart.
    ...I hope you liked them, because I have lived them so far, the peak from the perspective of the one who still suffers
    Love,
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    And all this to be just human.

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    "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" - African proverb

    "The soul of man,as it were,flows outwards in the activities of his own will." - Rudolf Steiner(Theosophy)

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    Without seeking to diminish in any way, great quotes from the past -
    here's something a little more current.

    "The technology is on the engineering benches today. But most Americans and most members of Congress have not had time to really look deeply at what is going on here. But I’ve had the benefit of 33 years of studying and becoming friends with these scientists. This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour."

    - Recently retired USAF Lt.Gen. Stephen L. Kwast. - last month.

    Around 12mins in -


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    Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
    Socrates

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    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    ― Vincent van Gogh

    “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh

    “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh

    “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

    “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh



    “What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
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    “Like it or not, everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man or the most horrible enslavement that you can imagine. Be active or abdicate. The future is in your hands.”
    ― Milton William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse

    “To cling to the past is guaranteed suicide. To remain apathetic is assured enslavement. To learn the truth and then act on it is the only means of survival at this moment.”
    ― Milton William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse

    “The general rule is that there is profit in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore, the best approach is to create problems and then offer the solutions.”
    ― Milton William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse

    “Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.”
    ― Milton William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse

    “when you assume the appearance of power, people soon give it to you.”
    ― Milton William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse

    “Experience has proven that the SIMPLEST METHOD of securing a silent weapon and gaining control of the public is to KEEP THE PUBLIC UNDISCIPLINED AND IGNORANT of basic systems principles on the one hand, WHILE KEEPING THEM CONFUSED, DISORGANIZED, AND DISTRACTED with matters of no real importance on the other hand. [WC all emphases.”
    ― Milton William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse

    “The quality of education given to the lower class must be of the poorest sort, so that the moat of ignorance isolating the inferior class from the superior class is and remains incomprehensible to the inferior class. With such an initial handicap, even bright lower class individuals have little if any hope of extricating themselves from their assigned lot in life. This form of slavery is essential to maintaining some measure of social order, peace, and tranquility for the ruling upper class.”
    ― Milton William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse
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    "When I don't know who I am, I serve you, when I know who I am, I am you, I am loving awareness, I am home"

    "We are not under time or space, we are infinite"

    In the memory of Ram Dass



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    And all this to be just human.

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    "No society wants you to become wise,it is against the investment of all societies.If the people are wise they cannot be exploited.
    If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated,they cannot be forced into a mechanical life,to live like robots...They will have the fragrance of
    rebellion around them.
    In fact,a wise man is afire,alive,aflame.He would like rather to die than to be enslaved." - Osho

    "They are two primary choices in life:to accept conditions as they exist or accept the responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley

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    The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
    Bruce Lee

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    "Willful ignorance in the presence of the Knowledge is the measure of a bad person" - Mark Passio

    "The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and Consciousness cannot evolve unconsciously.
    The evolution of man is the evolution of his will,and Will cannot evolve involuntarily." - George Gurdjieff

    "Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

    "Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human." - Agatha Christie

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    'Onward through the fog...' Greg Young, friend
    Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee

    Free will can only be as free as the mind that conceives it.

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    While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

    Leonardo da Vinci





    and only a few thoughts,
    I have a survival instinct that makes me feel completely different from myself and others.We all have it.
    My individuality transcends even quietly to others and this implies love for the community and human beings.

    The whole life course turns into a journey in which the purpose becomes the same as the journey itself, as futuristic metamorphosed into the whole spiritual philosophy that attests me in this life.
    At the same time, the fear of death is an absurd competition which is no longer important to me.

    The spontaneity of the life we ​​live comes from itself, not from us, and if we try to command with force, through negative emotions or indecision, this process of spontaneity called "life" actually manages to stop it.

    Why should we follow such a negative process that we finally give in to positivity?
    Why look for the secret of life, when you can be fully engaged in a simple mechanism of sufficient self, to be constantly aware of what you are doing and how much importance it has in the end?

    I really do not see the need to continue to live, except through the prism of what life teaches me to listen to (and is so subtle) in order to make the premise that human (modern) civilization may be classified according to its own genetically inscribed senses, in essence of initial construction initiated by the primary order and full of love which means life.
    And all this to be just human.

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    "To get a human body is a rare thing. Make full use of it. There are four million kinds of lives which a soul can gather. After that one gets a chance to be human, to get a human body. Therefore one should not waste that chance. Every second of human life is valuable. If you don't value this then you will weep in the end. Because you are human, God has given you the power to think and to decide what is good and bad. Therefore you can do the best kind of action. You should never consider yourself weak or a fallen creature. Whatever may have happened up to now may be because you didn't know, but now be careful. After getting a human body, if you don't reach God - then you have sold a diamond at the price of spinach."

    Swami Bramananda Saraswati (quoted by Greg Caton) in an interview
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    "Americans love their captivity. There's no responsibility. When you're a captive, you don't have to make a decision about anything, though you have no Liberty. People don't want Liberty. Liberty is nothing but uncertainty. It's much easier to have someone tell you where you'll be, what you'll do and who you'll pay tomorrow than to worry about it yourself. The same goes for what you think"
    --Eustace Mullins


    "The Federal Reserve System is not Federal; it has no reserves; and it is not a system at all, but rather, a criminal syndicate."
    --Eustace Mullins


    "The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because they had maintained large standing armies for almost fifty years, a situation created by their own central banks, and therefore they could not finance a war. A central bank always imposes a tremendous burden on the nation for "rearmament" and "defense", in order to create inextinguishable debt, simultaneously creating a military dictatorship and enslaving the people to pay the "interest" on the debt which the bankers have artificially created."
    --Eustace Mullins


    "It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of two opposing candidates, both of whom have been handpicked and financed by the Rockefeller syndicate. This touching evidence of "democracy" serves to convince most Americana that we are indeed a free people. We even have a cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to prove it."
    --Eustace Mullins


    "The increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve Banks from 143 Million dollars in 1913 to 45 Billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [Federal Reserve] banks."
    --Eustace Mullins


    "According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the Russian Revolution had been financed by the Rothschilds and Warburgs, with a member of the Warburg family carrying the actual funds used by Lenin and Trotsky in Stockholm in 1918."
    --Eustace Mullins
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    An 1898 quote apropos to the current situation perhaps.

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    "We're all bozos on this bus"

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    "For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death."
    Tom McMillan
    And all this to be just human.

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    The great author of the Golden Age of Russian Literature: Ivan Turgenev


    “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
    ― Ivan Turgenev

    “Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.”
    ― Ivan Turgenev

    "I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible."
    ― Ivan Turgenev

    "The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling."
    ― Ivan Turgenev

    "Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that."
    ― Ivan Turgenev

    "Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew."
    ― Ivan Turgenev

    "Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em."
    ― Ivan Turgenev

    “We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
    ― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons


    “Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!”
    ― Ivan S. Turgenev, Rudin
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    Frank Zappa Quotes

    "A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."
    --Frank Zappa

    "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
    --Frank Zappa

    "Music is the only religion that delivers the goods."
    --Frank Zappa

    "The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons."
    --Frank Zappa

    "The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
    --Frank Zappa

    "There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!"
    --Frank Zappa

    "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
    --Frank Zappa

    "Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity."
    --Frank Zappa

    "I'm vile and perverted. I'm obsessed and deranged. I've existed for years but very little has changed. I'm the tool of the government and industry too. For I'm destined to rule and regulate you. You may think I'm pernicious, but you can't look away. I'll make you think I'm delicious with the stuff that I say. I'm the best you can get... have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozing out of your TV set."
    --Frank Zappa

    "Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower."
    --Frank Zappa

    "I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance."
    --Frank Zappa

    "A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment."
    --Frank Zappa

    "If the media will show us airplanes disappearing into towers on 9/11--they'll show us ANYTHING and expect us to believe it."
    --frankstien

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